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Facebook Auto Add Friends

For all of you GreaseMonkey and Bookmarklets aficionados who get added on Facebook a lot, here’s a quick snippet I wrote to confirm all friend requests at once (Facebook’s interface normally has you click on confirm and ask for details for each friend which is a pain):

var inputbuttons = $$('input.inputbutton');
for (var i = 0; i < inputbuttons.length; i++){
  if (inputbuttons[i].value=="Confirm"){
    if (inputbuttons[i].attributes['onclick'].value.substring(8,24)
                                               == "click_add_friend"){
      inputbuttons[i].click();
    }
  }
}

Update: I’ve extended this script to automatically ignore all other requests (invitations to groups, applications…). See the updated script at Facebook Auto Requests Ignore.

10 Responses to “Facebook Auto Add Friends”

  1. Tracy Says:
    December 7th, 2007 at 8:13 pm

    How do you install it?

  2. Julien Says:
    December 24th, 2007 at 6:39 am

    This is a javascript that you need your browser to run each time you are on Facebook’s request page. Either manually paste it into the javascript console, or look into the two links I mentioned at the start of the article.

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  4. Lucy Says:
    February 20th, 2008 at 2:21 pm

    I cant get this to work in Greasemonkey and I have 1000 friend requests to accept.

    Is it possible to make one which is a file you install?

    Thanks

  5. Julien Says:
    February 22nd, 2008 at 4:05 pm

    See my comment on http://blog.mapmyglobe.com/facebook-auto-accept-requests/ for a fix.

    As for the Greasemonkey script, I’ll write one some day. For now you can run it inside a javascript console.

  6. Julien Says:
    February 22nd, 2008 at 4:10 pm

    Oh and by the way: don’t forget you’ve got a 5,000 friends limit on Facebook !! :D

  7. Lucy Says:
    February 27th, 2008 at 2:34 pm

    Ok so how do I install the fix?

    Its not working, its really annoying.

    I gather I put the script in the includes section but whats the excludes and Namespace?

    Thank you so much.

  8. Julien Says:
    February 28th, 2008 at 6:57 am

    @Lucy:
    I finally wrote a Greasemonkey script for this: it can be found at http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/23345, or directly here at http://blog.mapmyglobe.com/gmscripts/facebook-auto-confirm-friend-requests.user.js

    Note that it also accept any Group request.

  9. marco perez Says:
    July 4th, 2008 at 12:43 pm

    umm speaking of auto add friend… umm where would i put this code :P

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    July 20th, 2008 at 10:45 am

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